---
title: "Set password for user."
method: PUT
path: "/admin/users/{user_id}/password"
tags: ["admin_users"]
---

# Set password for user.

`PUT /admin/users/{user_id}/password`

## Request

- Base URL: `/api` (relative, and the document’s source URL is not known)
- URL: `/api/admin/users/{user_id}/password`
- Auth: HTTP basic

If you are running Grafana Enterprise and have Fine-grained access control enabled, you need to have a permission with action `users.password:update` and scope `global.users:*`.

## Path parameters

- `user_id` integer, required

## Request body

- AdminUpdateUserPasswordForm
  - `password` string

## Response `200`

An OKResponse is returned if the request was successful.

- SuccessResponseBody
  - `message` string

## Other responses

- `400`: BadRequestError is returned when the request is invalid and it cannot be processed.
- `401`: UnauthorizedError is returned when the request is not authenticated.
- `403`: ForbiddenError is returned if the user/token has insufficient permissions to access the requested resource.
- `500`: InternalServerError is a general error indicating something went wrong internally.

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